On Display: the Unthinkable (12 Jun 2005)
How is a nuclear bomb like an ancient African battle elephant? On a recent visit to the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, NM, I found hidden among the predictable exhibits--metal casings identical to those used in the Little Boy and Fat Man devices dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, films of mushroom clouds expanding over atomic- and hydrogen-bomb test sites, photos of Robert Oppenheimer and the gang at Los Alamos, CA--a reproduction of a 16th-century Flemish tapestry with a placard beside it that tried to answer this riddle.Article URL: http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/07/issue/review_display.asp